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3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… to assess species biodiversity. OC storage in above-ground biomass was assessed within the same study design. For the calculation of carbon stocks, allometric biomass equations were used (Sampaio Silva 2005, Sampaio et … that grazing had a significant negative effect on the biomass of woody plants, herbs and bromeliads. The analysis …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

The status of natural resources on the high-seas

… has already been developed on laboratory scales. Bacterial biomass generated by this process can be used as a food … The chemosynthetic production of potentially useful biomass by sulphide oxidising bacteria: In: Proceedings of … Some studies have identified a decrease in the biomass of planktonic organisms over seamounts. It has been …
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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought

… using an inter-annual vegetation index as an indicator of biomass production decline or increase found that land … and land cover types. Anthropogenic declines in biomass productivity were found on 25% of croplands and … vegetation. The study also identified improvement of biomass productivity on 2.7% of the global land mass (Le et …
17 Jun 2026 Literature

Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan

… stored in soils (2,700 GTs) is double the amount in biomass (575 GT) + the atmosphere (780 GT) v Triggers (rural … at the four sites has depleted most of the forage species. Biomass production of palatable and non-palatable plants in … long history of irrational use, notably overgrazing, the biomass measured this year must be considered as a maximum …
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Atmospheric brown clouds Regional Assesment report with focus on Asia

… resulting from the combustion of biofuels from indoors; biomass burning outdoors and fossil fuels, are found in all … such as fossil fuel combustion, biofuel cooking and biomass burning. Gases, such as NOx, CO and many volatile … surface and thus perturb temperature, precipitation and biomass production. ABCs intercept sunlight by both absorbing …
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Global Land Outlook

… of the following: productivity, soil, vegetation cover, biomass, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and environmental … Dynamics (LPD) dataset that refers to the standing biomass productivity, and is derived from phenological … strictly refers to the overall above-ground vegetation biomass productivity. This is not conceptually the same as, …
17 Jun 2026 Literature

Guidelines on Biofuels and Invasive Species

… and clones. BIoFuel liquid or gaseous fuels produced from biomass that can be used to replace petrol, diesel and other … of First generation) that make better use of cellulosic biomass from plants. two groups of approaches have developed … and fermentation, and thermochemical methods that gasify biomass and re-synthesise fuels using catalysts. these new …
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Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India

… species. Such forest losses also have implications for the biomass and carbon stocks as well as the dependent … species. Such forest losses also have implications for the biomass and carbon stocks as well as the dependent … timber, manure, medicine Regulating Climate regulation - biomass and soil carbon Supporting Biodiversity Recreational …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Can carbon dioxide storage help cut greenhouse emissions?

… 1970s and are currently c4 Raw material Fossil fuels, biomass Industrial process Combustion Gasification Reform … fuels for the transport sector, and large- scale biomass energy systems that – equipped with CCS – could … to “negative CO2 emissions”, since sustaina- bly grown biomass removes CO2 from the atmosphere. What are the …
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Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols

… for combustion of solid and liquid fuels, other than biomass and peat:26 Table 1 Fuel type Thermal input (MWth) … In particular, the ELVs shall not apply to: – Plants using biomass and peat as their only fuel source; – Plants in which … 0.5 ng TEQ/m3. 2 Including incinerators treating biomass waste which may contain halogenated organic compounds …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere